August 18, 2013

"jolie, ça!" It's Pretty!

Ma chère famille,

Ay Bonjour. Des for not sending any pics this week, I oublied forgot my cord... So yah. La semaine prochaine! Next week! 

Anyways, this week was exciting. Not as exciting as Pups-- I stayed on my little island. But! Soeur Lamb and I only had auto ecole school Wednesday!! And it was THE BEST. I have never been so happy in my life. hah. Mostly just to have the occasion to do mish work again for almost the entire week. It was very exciting! 

But yah, the subject line comes from Thursday, cause there was a sports/temple fundraiser thing for the pieu stake in Magenta, so we spent most of the day in the sun, running around like crazies! I got recruited for a soccer team, with Soeur Lamb, and Soeur Beagles and I created a volleyball team. It was fun! But yah, this is what people say here during sports when you do something good. hah. It was funny. Every time I passed the ball during soccer, "ay jolie ca!" It was funny. But yah, that was fun. I had a goal and an assist during soccer. And a pretty cool block in volleyball! Chyeah. Felt like the glory days, I'm just a lot more outta shape now, hah. 

And! we had lots of good lessons this week. One of the most exciting though was actually with an inactive member. He's been inactive for quite some time. And we've been reteaching him the lessons. So, we got to lesson 4 this week, les commandements, and we know he has a problem with la parole de sagesse the word of wisdom. 

So that's what we decided to start with. It's just the fact that he drinks coffee, every morning. And he's diminued now, but he still drinks it. But we talked about it with him and got to testify that this commandment is important and that God knows better than us, and he said that he's gonna live it again!! He's just gonna finish his boite box and after that, plus de café! This means more coffee but I assume she meant no more coffee. I'm stoked. It's exciting whenever anyone says that they're gonna live the word of wisdom!!

And, Soeur Lamb and I finally got our test date for le code!! It's the 3rd of September. So yah, lots of prayers please. Maybs even some fasting if you feel so inclined. And I'm gonna do the same. I just wanna be done. And be in my sector all the time!! With Soeur Beagles. But! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, so it's exciting.

Well family, that's about it for this week! I love this work and I am sooo happy to be here, serving these people. I love them so much! And I don't know how to explain it, but this work is real. And it's sooo important. the longer that I'm here, the more I think I realize how real and how important it is. Like when we testify and the Spirit is there to bear witness to our amis, the words we're saying might as well be written in a history book-- cause they're TRUE!! And I will NEVER be able to deny that. I love you family! Read the Book of Mormon every day and you will want to do missionary work, and if you do that, and you will be happy. Happiness that cannot be put into words. I love you! Thanks for your constant letters and prayers and support. Sometimes I wonder how I'm not just unconcious from how tired I am, but then I remember that you all, and every church member and investigator in the world are praying for me, and then it makes sense. Love you!

L'evangile est vraie!!

Love, Soeur Santos